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	Encyclopedia: The Sirens of Titan
		The Sirens of Titan (1959) is a science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut.
		The Sirens of Titan is a Kurt Vonnegut, Jr novel published in 1959 that represents the author's major foray into science fiction.
		However, Vonnegut's overriding purpose in The Sirens of Titan was to provide a social satire in which he could poke fun at the military, religion and the stock market.
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	Vonnegut: The Sirens of Titan
		The Sirens of Titan is naïve literature in every way possible, since it is a formulaic type (science fiction), employs formulaic characters, episodes, themes, properties, and settings, and is written in a remarkably simple style that, though not particularly formulaic, nevertheless includes evidence of formulaic epithets and phrase-tags.
		While The Sirens of Titan abounds in science fictional ingredients, they are not combined to produce the effects readers have come to expect of science fiction.
		It has become apparent, that The Sirens of Titan is neither a straightforward science fiction novel nor a parody of science fiction,12 but that it rather uses the conventions of the genre as a vehicle for other ends which could be broadly described as satiric.
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	The Sirens of Titan
		On Titan, the only place he can exist as a solid human being and not as a broadcast image, Rumfoord befriends an explorer from Tralfamadore (a world that also figures in Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five) named Salo who needs a "good-luck piece" to repair his damaged spaceship.
		The title is derived from the three-woman design on a pack of cigarettes that Constant uses, a design that Rumfoord's incorporated into his house on Titan.
		Salo's ship crashed on Titan in Earth's prehistory, and his people, the Tralfamadorians, have been sending him messages through Earth's great architectural achievements such as the Egyptian Pyramids, Stonehenge, and the Great Wall of China.
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	Bibliography: The Sirens of Titan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Sirens of Titan (1985, Dell/Delta, 0385294212, $9.95, 319pp, pb)
		The Sirens of Titan (1986, Gollancz, 0575038195, L2.95, 224pp, pb)
		The Sirens of Titan (1989, Gollancz, 0575045663, L3.50, 224pp, pb)
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	The SF Site Featured Review: The Sirens of Titan
		The Sirens of Titan is #18 in the SF Masterworks series from Victor Gollancz' Millennium imprint.
		The Sirens of Titan is centrally concerned with the meaning of life.
		Suffice it to say that The Sirens of Titan is a good example of Vonnegut's style: it's thoroughly infused with his satiric wisdom, dark humour, and clever charm.
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	THE SIRENS OF TITAN by Kurt Vonnegut - A REVIEW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		THE SIRENS OF TITAN by Kurt Vonnegut (Indigo 1996 pp224 £5.99)
		Sirens is famous for the revelation of its plot - everything in human history has been for just one purpose, so a messenger from the planet Tralfamadore can carry his message across the galaxy.
		Constant will eventually escape to Titan, be rescued and be returned to Earth by Salo the Tralfamadorian, and then experience another surprise.
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	Critical Analysis
		The two novels The Sirens of Titan and Cat's Cradle are strikingly similar both thematically and stylistically.
		That is why in The Sirens of Titan, Winston chooses to found a new religion called "The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent" (The Sirens of Titan, p.183).
		In The Sirens of Titan part of Winston's installing a new religion, he brings an army of humans to Mars where they are implanted with antennas that cause enough pain when unwanted thoughts or actions are present to make the person forget what they are doing.
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	The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, 0575038195, Lowest Book Price Finder
		Despite his struggles, Constant is destined for a grimly comic pilgrimage around the Solar System to Titan, home since 203,117 BC of the visiting alien Salo whose presence has warped the whole of human history.
		The Sirens of Titan is no different, and excels in advancing these themes in the context of an amazingly imaginative story.
		"The Sirens of Titan" is an outlandish and imaginative fantasy that is also a serious consideration of mankind's need for meaning in life.
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	Whyaduck Productions, Inc. -- Sirens of Titan
		Mother Night was one and I crossed that off the list in 1996.
		Since first reading Sirens of Titan in the late 70's, I was convinced that it had all the earmarks for an incredible screen adaptation...
		Even before Keith Gordon and I made Mother Night, I had been asking Vonnegut about the rights to Sirens of Titan.
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	Nightly.Net: Kurt Vonnegut
		sirens of titan is one of my all time favorite books from any author.
		His first two, Player Piano and The Sirens of Titan, were always my faves, mostly because they were the most straightforward.
		Cat's Cradle, Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse 5 (of course), Breakfast of Champions (I've heard described as "watching a total mental break down") Mother Night, and so on.
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	The Sirens of Titan. - Kurt Vonnegut - Gut Laden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Sirens of Titan," by Kurt Vonnegut, is about a man and his life in the future.
		"Sirens of Titan's" theme would be that it doesn't matter how much one tries to escape it, there is a set plan for his or her life.
		Though I am a fan of Vonnegut, it is still rather obvious that Sirens of Titan is one of his first novels.
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		He continued writing science fiction short stories until his next novel was published- The Sirens of Titan (1959).
		His next work, Cat's Cradle, was like Player Piano and The Sirens of Titan, except after Vonnegut's success the novel became extremely popular.
		In fact, the dog Kazak from The Sirens of Titan was a major character but was cut down, and Vonnegut's character is attacked as retribution for this.
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	Kurt Vonnegut's SIRENS OF TITAN
		Some comments on The Sirens of Titan Marek Vit "It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." (Vonnegut:220) The Sirens of Titan is Kurt Vonnegut's second novel.
		Unk's son also adds to this image of a soldier: when you are 14 years old, they shave your head and you become a man. This Vonnegut's description of a soldier is highly ironic.
		Another important thing in The Sirens of Titan is Vonnegut's image of God and various religions.
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	Book Summary : The Sirens of Titan by KURT VONNEGUT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		SIRENS OF TITANS is startlingly mature for a novel written in 1959 (...).
		The core of the book is the worldview--but one cannot understand the worldview without experiencing the plot.
		As usual, Vonnegut's SIRENS conjures for me the works of Philip K. Dick, Walter Kaufmann, and Tim Miller.
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	The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - eBooks
		The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
		The Sirens of Titan is essential, fundamental Vonnegut, as entertaining as it is questing in search of answers to the mysteries of life.
		Vonnegut summons greatness for the first time in The Sirens of Titan, where the search for the meaning of existence looks and sounds like a kaleidoscopic dream but leaves the reader with a clear and challenging answer.
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		The sirens of Titan were beginning to ring within me and beckon me to leave it all behind and to seek their soothing serenade.
		The sirens of Titan were raising me from the ashes of futility and despair and beginning to fill me with the wonderment of the grand and glorious events they conspired to bring to the world stage of events on the late great planet Earths' all but doomed prognosis for the future.
		It would mean the end of the party of the summer of 77 on 45th and 9th.
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	Prakope.com Archive - Sirens of Titan
		I've often intoned about my love of Kurt Vonnegut novels and the underlying humanism to them and the latest one I've read The Sirens of Titan is no exception, and might fall into the number 3 slot right behind Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse 5.
		It's a story of the most depraved man on Earth, who is kicked around and manipulated by many for their own ends.
		A man alone on Titan, with a woman who despises him and their son, realizes when she dies that he's finally for the first time after 74 years fallen in love...
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	Tralfamadorians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They are placid in their fatalism, and patiently explain their philosophy as he is caged in a Trafalmadorian zoo; eventually he adopts their attitude, is returned to Earth, and spreads their philosophy, becoming a wildly popular public figure.
		In The Sirens of Titan, Vonnegut wrote that the Tralfamadorians are a race of intelligent machines, originally developed by super-beings who built them to give meaning to their own lives.
		Unable to achieve this task, the precursor race used the Tralfamadorians instead to extinguish themselves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tralfamadorians (268 words)

	Reading Orbit, OCSFC Book Club: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
		That is, the contrast, possibly “debate,” between those who search “outwardly” for the meaning of their lives, and those who search “inwardly.” The Sirens of Titan is a story from a time before individuals were able to find such meaning within themselves.
		There are many examples in The Sirens of Titan where, due to searching outwardly, it is discovered that one is only a part of something else.
		Given this I would propose that what The Sirens of Titan is declaring is that it is the order, and therefore the intention, of one’s search for meaning that is important.
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	Literature Network Forums - The Sirens of Titan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Both Sirens and Slaughterhouse five are wonderful reads, I do wonder what this recurring theme of being unstuck in time relates to in his life - though I gather he was pretty phucked up from surviving Dresden - but then that's hardly suprising.
		Depending on why you read, Cat's Cradle or Slaughterhouse Five could easily be 'superior' works, but The Sirens told a better story, even if it was lacking in areas such as political commentary (though it is overflowing with social commentary).
		Sirens of Titan and Slaughterhouse 5 are the only novels of Vonnegut's I have read.
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		Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.: The Sirens of Titan (perma-bound)
		This is a former high school library book, but the only markings are a check-out envelope inside the back cover, and the name of the school stamped on the bottom of pages 137, 221, 319 and the title page.
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	The Sirens of Titan: A Look Back at Vonnegut's SF Masterwork
		Shot into space, bouncing from planet to planet, spaceship to spaceship, having little say in the matter, Constant is the ultimate Vonnegut character, denied even the illusion of control over his immediate surroundings, much less his destiny.
		Sirens takes us on a journey to Mars, Mercury and back to Earth for a highly surreal interstellar war -- and finally to Saturn's moon, Titan.
		Powerfully existential, yet with a light pop touch, Sirens was one of the first attempts at truly tragicomic SF vision, balancing the pessimistic, tiny presence of humanity with beautiful imagery of space, planets and stars.
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	» The Sirens of Titan
		As the "family" of Malachi, Beatrice, and Chrono leaves Earth one last time for Titan, Winston does them the favor of explaining everything in full detail to them - in front of the crowd - about who they were on Earth before their memories were cleaned out on Mars.
		Comment: Although The Sirens of Titan contains many of the tropes common to science fiction, it is not actually a science fiction novel.
		Whereas their would be shown as an element of fascism and tyranny in "Harrison Bergeron", in The Sirens of Titan it merely is a quirk of a strange religion.
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	Achenblog: Daily Humor and Observations from Joel Achenbach
		We've heard (those of us who are exobiologically inclined) about Titan's possible oceans, and by gosh there does seem to be some kind of lake or ocean or...
		Guy Gugliotta's story makes the crucial point that Titan seems to have weather, something we don't see anywhere else in the solar system.
		So the news from Titan is dazzling, but it should make us appreciate Earth all the more.
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	The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Search Cheap Books, Discount Books, ISBN 0385333498
		The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions), tells the story of how a lucky only son, Malachi Constant, gains extreme wealth, travels to Mars, Mercury, and Titan, loses his wealth, fulfills prophesy, continues his name, and, ultimately, is a victim of "somebody up there."
		This is a difficult novel to summarize, as it is largely told in science-fiction form, involving interplanetary travel, robot aliens, and, of course, the chrono-synclastic infundibula.
		The Sirens of Titan, on the other hand, is somewhere in the middle.
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		A rip in space time, and the only place with 'room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree'.
		Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan has been labeled an antiwar novel, par excellence.
		Unfortunately, Niles is a conniving megalomaniac with godlike delusions, but this is justified, after all, he is the infundibulated space man. Niles uses his infundibulated clairvoyance to build a large and helpless army of human misfits and misanthropes on Mars with the expressed purpose of invading Earth.
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